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Meaning of “modulo the fact”
I just saw a construction quoted below.
Every answer that wasn't this particular user's had been downvoted (modulo one that was a one-liner summary of his answer).
To my understanding, "modulo" is a mathematical operator, roughly put for computing the rest term in a division. What does it do in this sentence?
The term "a modulo b" in a mathematical setting means that anything equal to b in a is disregarded (more specifically, set to zero).
Here it means that the answer that was a one-liner had not been downvoted, while every other answer one had been downvoted.
